Have the past few years of tech news gotten you down? Here are four recent advancements in tech you may have missed.
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The Filter Bubble, Lenses and Belonging
Being willing to update one’s prior assumptions in the face of new evidence is the essence of learning. If you haven’t changed your mind on something important in the past five years, check your filter bubble.
Read MoreMusk v. Holmes: “Fake It Till You Make It” Only Sometimes Works
The conviction of Elizabeth Holmes should cause any founder to take stock of their claims: hopes, exaggeration, or fraud?
Read MoreStudents and Parents Brace for an Unknown 2021-2022 College Year
The second academic year of COVID begins. What does it hold for those on adult’s launchpad?
Read MoreInternet Consensus Is Not Truth
How do you know what’s true? Do you have enough healthy, respectful dissent in your information diet?
Read MoreWill the Class of 2021 Have a Graduation?
I’ve written previously about the Class of 2021, a unique cohort that’s had to adapt the most important moment of their young lives to totally new conditions. They’ve had little normalcy, nor semblances of junior and senior year as most of us know it. I’ve got a son in the […]
Read MoreIn Act II, Will We Wait Until Our Row Number Is Called?
At this time, we’d like to offer early boarding to passengers traveling with small children, and our active military members.” once-familiar refrain at airports It’s just before Easter, and it’s starting to feel like we’re entering Act II of the COVID-19 crisis. The frightening curves are flattening in many parts […]
Read MoreTo the High School Class of 2021
March 2020: I’m reading lots of pieces (for instance here, here and here) about the COVID Class of 2020, detailing many real and heartbreaking stories of the traditions and moments that high school seniors are losing. And on social media, I’m reading wonderful and genuine expressions of sympathy, like this […]
Read MoreA Turn Toward Optimism
I am noting for my future self that yesterday, Sunday March 22, 2020, was the day that my mood shifted fairly markedly from gloomy about the mid-term 3-9 month window to optimistic. SHORT TERM (0-2 months) things will get tougher, and media gloom will accelerate as the wave now hits […]
Read MoreIntroducing bigthanks.org
Late last week, a few of us started discussing ways we could help out local restaurants that are devastated by the COVID crisis. My friend Michelle came up with the brilliant idea to raise money to buy gratitude meals for first responders, to help express just some of our thanks for […]
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